Continental to boost U.S. truck tire output
ERJ staff report (TB)
Mount Vernon, Illinois - Continental Tire the Americas L.L.C. plans to boost capacity for truck tires at its Mount Vernon plant by mid-2015 as part of a $129 million investment at the sprawling car and truck tire manufacturing complex in southern Illinois, reports Bruce Davis of Tire Business.
The project will boost annual capacity to “more than†3 million units - including new building capacity for wide-base single truck tires - and create more than 100 jobs, Conti said.
The company declined to be more specific about the scale of the expansion; according to a 2011 investment announcement, annual truck tire capacity at the plant was supposed to reach 3.15 million units by year-end 2012.
This expansion, which gives Conti its first North American capacity for wide-base truck tires, raises to $615 million the amount Conti has committed to Mount Vernon since 2006. Among the reasons Conti cited for making the investment are rising demand for Continental- and General-brand truck tires, the need to manage complexity better and “emerging technologies†in tire production.
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